Posted on 11/15/2015 3:50:10 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
What got me about "boys dont cry" (I've never watched the movie and never will) is that the real story is that the women was a petty criminal who acted like a boy so she could prey on underage girls. And they made a hero out of her.
Really? I didn’t know that. Disgusting.
It always seems like she’s in a movie pushing a theme of the left.
Maybe I’ll watch Million Dollar. But someone told me the ending. i HATE that.
btw, SouthPaw was really good. Watched it yesterday. That guy Jake whatshisname is a good actor.
In December 1990, Teena went to Holiday Skate Park with his friends, binding his breasts to pass as a boy. The 18-year-old Teena went on a date with a 13-year-old girl. He also met the girl's 14-year-old friend, Heather,[7] and began regularly dressing as a male. In the months nearing his high school graduation, Teena became unusually outgoing and was remembered by classmates as a "class clown".[7] Teena also began skipping school and receiving failing grades, and was expelled from Pius X High School in June 1991, three days before high school graduation.[7]In the summer of 1991, Teena began his first major relationship, with Heather. Shortly after, Teena was first employed as a gas station attendant in an attempt to purchase a trailer home for himself and his girlfriend. His mother, however, did not approve of the relationship, and convinced her daughter to follow Teena in order to know if the relationship was platonic or sexual.[7]
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If this were a guy he would have been tossed in jail.
disgusting.
BTW, in spite of all that Brandon Teena did not deserve to end the way she did.
Dont know anything about how she lived or died, except what you told me. I think I read she was killed.
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